For each question in this section, choose the best answer and blacken the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

Each of the following questions has one or two blank
spaces, each blank indicates that a word has been omitted. Each sentence
is followed by five words or pairs of words. Choose the word or pairs
of words that best completes the meaning of the sentence.

Example:

She should act with ---- if she wants to buy her airline ticket before tomorrow’s price-increase.

(A) looseness (B) languor (C) celerity
(D) felicity (E) forbearance

Either Thai dishes are -----, or the one I had was a poor example.

(A) delicious
(B) impeccable
(C) overrated
(D) untasted
(E) unpopular

A person who is ------ is slow to adopt to a new way of life.

(A) intractable
(B) unconcerned
(C) furious
(D) insolent
(E) valiant

Oswald, who refrained from excesses in his personal life, differed markedly from Niro, who ------ notorious drinking bouts with his buddies.